Adam Gemili leads the way for Britain with 200-metre golden triumph

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Gemili left the field trailing in the 200 metres, equalling his personal best of 19.98secDean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty Images

Ron Lewis

Last updated at 12:01AM, August 16 2014

Adam Gemili capped another wonderful night for British athletics at the
European Championships. Gemili won gold in the 200 metres to add to Martyn
Rooney’s triumph in the 400 metres, as well as silver medals for Matthew
Hudson-Smith and Jodie Williams, and a bronze for Laura Weightman, as Great
Britain closed in on a record medal haul at the event. Britain now have six
gold medals, their record being nine.

Gemili, who split the world-class Jamaicans, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Nickel
Ashmeade, when he won silver in the 100 metres at the Common-wealth Games,
destroyed the field in the 200 metres